Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't… — Shannen Doherty Copy Share Image
All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
“Thinking,” Vrag interrupted. “Is not your prerogative, dog. That is my calling. You go where I tell you to go, you take… — S.G. Night Copy Share Image
In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“I don't want lies between us, Alina." "How many lies have you told me, Sturmhond? How many secrets have you kept until… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
[Late-night host] is not really a job for a woman. You can't have kids and be a late-night host.I mean Samantha Bee… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council,… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few!… — Jane Taylor Copy Share Image
Some people may not agree with me, that's their prerogative, but you would know clearly where Herman Cain stands on all of… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image